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What does apartheid mean?

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It means separateness and was the term used in South Africa for a system that forbade the people that were not European from attaining education or a reasonable standard of living. it kept the whites in charge and put the blacks in a position where they were officially inferior. It separated the races both socially, comercialy and residential

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Apartheid means total racial separation, i.e. segregation.

The word means "apartness" in the Afrikaans (Dutch-based South African) language.

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